The present invention, wherein a printed circuit board (1) is allowed in the housing relates to a device for heat dissipation by a printed circuit with at least one electronic component member (2, 2A) arranged to the substrate 1 on the heat sink (3) a printed circuit in the region of the fixed between the elastic element for the compensation of tolerances, the heat sink (3) at least one cooling surface area (4, 4A) is, the structural member (2, 2A) arranged on the upper side projecting from the is arranged to face towards the radiation to be the underside of the substrate (1).


Cyclic tension and alternating bending tests of 12Cr1MoV and 30CrMnSiNi2 steels specimens in as–supplied state and after surface irradiation by Zr+ ion beam have been carried out. Distinctions in formation of strain induced relief, as well as cracking pattern of modified surface layer are illustrated by methods of optical microscopy and interferential profilometry. Changes to occur in subsurface layer are characterized by means of nanoindentation and scanning electron microscopy of fracture surfaces. The description of differences of deformation behavior is carried out with use of the multiple cracking concepts.


A novel 3D metal-organic coordination polymer with helical chains based on a flexible 5-(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)isophthalic acid (H2L) as a main ligand and 1,2-bis(4pyridyl)ethane(bpa) as a N-containing ancillary ligand, [CdL(bpa)0.5]n (1), has been obtained under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by elemental analysis, powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), IR, thermal gravimetric analyses (TGA) and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. It crystallizes in monoclinic, space group P21/c with a = 10.984(2), b = 10.1829(12), c = 17.782(3) A, β = 123.156(11)o, V = 1665.1(5) A, Z = 4, Mr = 448.72, Dc = 1.790 g/cm, Rint = 0.0871, F(000) = 892, the final R = 0.0687 and wR = 0.1294 for 2920 observed reflections (I > 2σ(I)). In complex 1, the L anions connect Cd(II) ions to form two-dimensional metal-organic layers (Cd2L2)n, in which the 1D helical chains (Cd-L)n are alternately arranged in a rightand left-handed sequence. These layers are further linked to build a 3D network by the bpa ligand. In addtion, photoluminescent properties for 1 are also investigated.


Abstract In this paper we consider the boundary blow-up problem Δu=f(u) in Ω, u(x)→∞ as x→∂Ω, and its non-autonomous version in a bounded, convexC2-domainΩof R N. We give growth conditions onfat ±∞ which imply the existence of two distinct blow-up solutions. The cases, (a)fhas a zero, and (b) min f>0, are fundamentally different. In case (a) we have a positive and a sign-changing blow-up solution. In case (b) we introduce a bifurcation parameterλinto the equationΔu=λf(u) and show that for 0 λcritthere is no blow-up solution.


The current short paper is a summary of a wider research on surgical wound healing in common carp. Temperature and suture type influences were observed for 30 days, postoperatory.


The article analyzes the novel by Christopher Fowler "Spanky", which focused on the subject-image level to the tragedy of Johann Goethe's "Faust", complicating Faustian motive of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.


The purpose of this study is to identify teachers' view on students' degree of knowledge, skills, and attitudes relating to global citizenship issues. A total of 87 primary and secondary school teachers from several states were selected. This study used questionnaires to collect data. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings showed that the level of knowledge is relatively high, while students' degree of skills and attitudes about global citizenship are relatively moderate. In addition, at the primary school level, the mean scores are relatively low compared to the secondary school level. The findings also showed that students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes in secondary schools are higher than in primary schools. This study proposed a more structured global citizenship education to be embedded in the schools' education structure and as a guideline that can be followed by all teachers to produce students who are willing to become aspiring global citizens for national and global well-being.


The study of how crime affects different income groups faces several difficulties. The first is that crime-avoiding activities vary across income groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in avoiding crime. A second difficulty is that, typically, only a small fraction of the population is victimized so that empirical tests often lack the statistical power to detect differences across groups. We take advantage of a dramatic increase in crime rates in Argentina during the late 1990s to document several interesting patterns. First, the increase in victimization experienced by the poor is larger than the increase endured by the rich. The difference appears large: low-income people have experienced increases in victimization rates that are almost 50 percent higher than those suffered by high-income people. Second, for home robberies, where the rich can protect themselves (by hiring private security, for example), we find significantly larger increases in victimization rates amongst the poor. In contrast, for robberies on the street, where the rich can only mimic the poor, we find similar increases in victimization for both income groups. Third, we document direct evidence on pecuniary and non-pecuniary protection activities by both the rich and poor, ranging from the avoidance of dark places to the hiring of private security. Fourth, we show the correlations between changes in protection and mimicking and changes in crime victimization. Fifth, we offer one possible way of using these estimates to explain the incidence of crime across income groups. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)


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Wind environment above the deck near the pylon of cable-supported bridge or arch foot of arch bridge is very complex in condition of strong cross wind, thus affecting the bridge towers of cable-supported bridge or arch bridge deck and other parts of the high winds driving environment is very complex, thus affecting the controllable stability of passing vehicles. Based on numerical wind tunnel technology, the numerical simulation investigation of alternating wind environment above the girder near A-shaped pylon for main span of the steel truss girder cable-stayed bridge of Zhengxin Yellow River Bridge is carried out, the result shows that the original program has significant effect on wind speed amplification and mutation near the pylon area in cross wind. Further researches aiming at wind barrier set up on both sides of the girder section or near the A-shaped pylon along the bridge are also presented; one type of wind barrier project is obtained, which is useful for reducing wind speed above the leeward deck near the pylon and weakening its mutation, and also provides technical support for the final implementation of the wind barrier as an engineering measure.


Learner Participation Practices in Adult Literacy Efforts in the United States September 1987 Paul Joseph Jurmo B.A., University of Michigan M.Ed., Boston University Ed.D., University of Massachusetts Directed by: Professor David C. Kinsey Current efforts to expand adult literacy services in the United States too often merely replicate past ineffective practices and fail to make use of alternative instructional and management approaches available to them. Learner participation practices are one such potentially useful tool. In them, learners are intentionally encouraged to take greater control and responsibility in the running of


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the prevalence rate of hepatitis B virus(HBV)and hepatitis C virus(HCV)between aggressive and indolent B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL), and to compare the different infection rate of Hepatifis Virus between the 2 groups.

METHODS
Integrated clinical information of 733 newly diagnosed indolent B-NHL patients and 148 aggressive B-NHL patients from January 1994 to January 2014 was retrospectively analyzed. The difference of hepatitis virus infection was compared between the 2 groups.

RESULTS
The positive rate of HCV-Ab was 1.8% in 881 newly diagnosed B-NHL patients. The HCV prevalence was 1.9% and 1.35% in the indolent and aggressive B-NHL group respecitvely. Compared with general population, the HCV positive rate was significantly higher in the whole B-NHL group and the indolent group(1.8% vs 0.4%,1.9% vs 1.4%)(P<0.01), while it was not significantly different in the aggressive group (1.35% vs 0.4%)(P=0.068). The positive rate of HCV-Ab was not significantly different between the indolent and the aggressive group (1.9% vs 1.35%)(P=0.639). The HBs-Ag positive rate in the whole B-NHL group was 9.0%, which was significantly higher than that in the general population (9.0% vs 7.2%)(P<0.05). The positive rate of HBs-Ag in the indolent and aggressive B-NHL group was 7.9% and 14.2%, respectively. It was significantly higher in the aggressive group than that in the indolent one (14.2% vs 7.2%)(P<0.01). Compared with the general population, the aggressive group had significantly higher prevalence rate of HBV. However, it was not significantly different between the indolent group and the general population (7.9% vs 7.2%)(P>0.05).In the aggressive B-NHL group,the co-expression of HBs-Ag,HBe-Ag and anti-HBc-Ab was 4.4%, which was higher than that in the indolent one (4.7% vs 1.2%)(P<0.01). However, compared with the indolent group, the co-expression of HBs-Ag, anti-HBe-Ab and anti-HBc-Ab was not significantly different in the aggressive group (5.5% vs 6.1%)(P>0.05).

CONCLUSION
The HCV is more relevant with indolent B-NHL, the HBV has more relevance with the aggressive patients.


With the implementation of the open-door policy since 1978 in China,fast economic growth has happened,but income inequality increased and became the bottle-neck of further development.This study explores the effects of schooling on income inequality from 1991 to 2006.Its analysis is based on the China Health Nutrition Survey (CHNS) by Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina and the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.The research shows that:the influence of expansion of schooling on the change of income inequality in China has a U-shape tendency,but the contribution of the rate of return to schooling takes an invert U-shape tendency.Schooling has influence on income inequality in China.However,the prerequisite of reducing income inequality is to enhance the schooling level for the people at the lower end.


Looking back on my experiences as an undergraduate student more than a decade ago, I can still remember the excitement I felt as 1 walked into my first Chicano Studies class: La Chicana. The local community college that I attended the first twoyears did not offer any Chicano Studies courses, and it wasn't until I transferred to the Uni versity of California, that I finally came into contact with a few Latino professors and a Chicano Studies curriculum. After completing this course, to say that my life changed is an understatement. The Chicana professor who taught "La Chicana," took me under her wing, and we soon developed a wonderful teacher-student relationship that affected me profoundly. For the first time in my academic life, 1 felt a sense of belonging in a university setting. Soon after that I changed my major from Liberal Studies to Sociology and decided to attend graduate school. My other source of inspiration and support was my family, especially my mother. Being a single mother with three small children presented numerous challenges for me, but having my family close by contributed greatly to my academic success. Today, in my more retrospective moments, I often wonder what would have happened had I not been fortunate enough to have these wonderful people in my life. My interest in Chicanas in higher educa tion stems from my own educational experiences and an interest in examining why some of my own Chicana/Latina students persist and graduate, while others leave the university without a diploma. This study examines the effects of protective resources and compensatoiy factors such as parental support and encouragement, socialization practices, mentors, and personal characteristics on Chicana graduation rates from a four-year state university. Generally, Chicanas/Latinas who attend college share similar academic risk fac tors such as poverty, tracking, lower academic expectations, inferior instruction, and attending segregated schools. But why do some


The systematic investigations were performed to evaluate concentrations and potential sources of urban topsoil in the interior area of the Second Ringroad of Xi'an,Shaanxi Province.Combined with 3S technology,78 topsoil samples were collected from the interior area of the Second Ringroad,Xi'an.Then the concentrations of copper(Cu),cobalt(Co),chromium(Cr),manganese(Mn),nickel(Ni),lead(Pb),zinc(Zn) and vanadium(V) were measured by X-ray fluorescence(XRF).The contamination degree of 8 heavy metals was assessed according to the Muller index and Nemero index.The statistical results show that the mean of Co,Cr,Cu,Mn,Ni,Pb,Zn,V are 19.32,81.10,54.27,671.50,34.46,59.69,186.17,85.20 mg·kg-1,respectively,which are higher than the background value of Shaanxi Province.This is especially true for Cu,Pb and Zn,which are 1.27-37.01、1.21-23.67 and 0.99-71.54 times their corresponding background values of Shaanxi soil.The integrated pollution level of topsoil samples collected from the interior area of the Second Ringroad in Xi'an is moderate,of which 56.41% of the samples are slightly polluted,29.49% of sampling points are moderately polluted,14.10% of the sampling points are severe polluted.There is not obvious pollution for Mn,Ni,V,Cr;and the different accumulation levels of Co,Cu,Pb,Zn are related to transportation and other human activities.


Carbon fiber composite conductors (CFCC) have a wide potential application prospect in the capacity expansion project. But its characteristics of wind swing are not clear, which is not conducive to its popularization. In this paper, A dynamic model of transmission line was established, and the same type of aluminum conductor steel reinforced (ACSR) was selected for comparative study. The minimum interphase distance of the conductors and the wind swing angle of the insulator string under three kinds of wind were calculated. The simulated results show that the wind swing responses of CFCC are different under different wind patterns, and the minimum interphase distance may occur between the B-C phases or the A- B phases in different range of span. It was found that the swing angle in the CFCC lines was slightly larger than that in the ACSR lines, and the swing of insulators is the most serious in gust, followed by fluctuating wind and steady wind. Therefore, the influence of gust and fluctuating wind should be fully considered in the design of CFCC lines, and measures to prevent wind swing should be strengthened when installing CFCC in the old ACSR lines.


Abstract The concentrations of the more‐or‐less strongly retained trace elements present in the root zone of some northern Nigerian soils were determined. The soils were chosen to represent some of the more extensively distributed soil orders under cultivation in the Nigerian savanna zone. Extraction by concentrated HNO3 was used to determine the so‐called "total"; amount of retained Cu, Zn, Pb, Ni, Cd, and B in the soils. Aqueous solutions of the chelating agents, EDTA and DTPA, were used to extract the more weakly retained Cu, Zn, Pb, Ni, and Cd; whereas, hot water was used to extract the weakly retained B. The "total"; and the more‐weakly‐retained contents of these trace elements were significantly correlated with the amount of clay, silt, and the oxalate‐extractable oxyhydroxides present in the soils; whereas, only the weakly retained elements were significantly correlated with the content of organic matter in the soil. Both the "total"; concentrations and weakly‐retained Cu, Zn, and B were so low tha...


therapeutic effects. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are a novel approach with promising therapeutic potential for curing human diseases.Aim of the work: To evaluate the effect of pomegranate and BMSCs on experimentally induced gastric ulcer in adult male rats.Materials and Methods: Sixty adult male rats were divided into four groups. Group I kept as the control group. Group II (Gastric ulcer), rats received 100% ethanol orally by gastric tube. Group (III) subdivided into 3 subgroups. Subgroup IIIa included rats with gastric ulcer that treated with pomegranate only. Subgroup IIIb, rats with gastric ulcer treated with BMSCs alone. Subgroup IIIc; gastric ulcer rats treated with a combination of pomegranate and BMSCs. Group IV included the untreated gastric ulcer rats. Fundus of stomach specimens were prepared and examined using histological and immunohistochemical techniques.Results: Groups II and IV showed various changes as deep erosion, marked damage of most of the cells. The presence of the inflammatory cells in gastric mucosa were supported by a significant increase of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) expression and collagen fibers depositions (P<0.01). A significant decrease of Periodic Acid Schiff (PAS) positive reaction and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression was observed (P<0.01). Subgroup IIIa showed attenuation of some histological changes, while subgroups IIIb and IIIc revealed more improvement of the histological and immunohistochemical changes described before.Conclusion: BMSCs can ameliorate experimentally-induced gastric injury in rats and protect the gastric tissue. Addition of pomegranate to BMSCs can lead to better results.


The invention relates to barometric therapeutic equipment with a built-in arterial mode. The barometric therapeutic equipment comprises a system host (1), a vent line (2) and a limb sleeve (3), wherein the limb sleeve (3) is provided with a multi-cavity air bag, and the system host (1) is connected with the limb sleeve (3) via the vent line (2). The barometric therapeutic equipment is characterized in that the system host inflates the multi-cavity air bag according to a specific inflating and deflating sequence and a pressure configuration mode, so that air pressure is applied to a limb of a patient to accelerate arterial blood flow speed of the limb and change arterial blood circulating state. The specific inflating and deflating sequence and the pressure configuration mode refer to that after air in the multi-cavity air bag of the limb sleeve (3) is sequentially fully deflated from a heart-distant end to a heart-close end, the air is inflated in a quick peristaltic manner from the heart-close end to the heart-distant end, and an air bag pressure value during peristaltic inflation is smaller than that during sequential full deflation.


The article focuses on statements by the suspect of a petition for inquiry in abbreviated form. It examines the form and content of motions for the production of inquiry in abbreviated form is an example of its execution and there is a motion on the mandatory notification of the suspect on the review and resolution officer making inquiries of the petition for inquiry in abbreviated form. In addition, refers to the possibility of application of norms of the renewal and recovery of missed deadlines in a statement, the suspect of a petition for inquiry in abbreviated form.


An experimental investigation was made of a surface optical discharge plasma in a CO2 laser beam. The spatial temperature distributions were measured in the optical discharge plasma and on the surface of the irradiated target in the presence of the optical discharge. It was found that the optical discharge in the target vapor was localized in the caustic of the focused beam, while that in the gas surrounding the target moved a considerable distance from the target. This was due to the difference between their energy balance conditions. An optical discharge in the target vapor can increase substantially the power flux absorbed by the target at the center of the focal spot, while one in the gas transfers the power absorbed from the laser beam to an area which is considerably larger than that of the spot. The influence of the laser beam focusing conditions on the efficiency of the localized interaction with the target is indicated and methods are proposed for increasing this efficiency in the presence of plasma.


Using the Wigner approach, we propose an inequality to test the macroscopic realism concept. The proposed inequality is first derived for three distinct moments of time and then for $n$ distinct moments of time. Using the latter one we show that any unitary evolution of a quantum system contradicts the concept of macroscopic realism. We also obtain an inequality for testing of the hypothesis of realism. It is shown that this inequality is not identical to the Wigner inequality.


The systemic transformation towards climate neutral cities depends on a dramatic reduction in the use of natural resources, whose use are directly or indirectly associated with greenhouse gas emissions. This means improving Urban Metabolism (UM) and one of the most promising pathways is to promote Circular Economy (CE) practices in the existing building stock, as this approach could reduce global CO2e emissions from building materials by 38% in 2050. However, although resource efficiency is at core of CE, there are still only a few established connections between CE and UM. This paper aims to fill this gap by adopting a three-tier approach based on the dimensions and the spatial implementation of CE (building, neighbourhood and UM scales), with the aim of discussing strategies for CE implementation. Although this not a one-size-fits-all process and cities must adapt these strategies to their local contexts, the strategic actions offered by this paper will facilitate the future development of a dedicated framework for buildings refurbishment using the principles of CE and the definition of multisectoral policy-based actions, in line with the decarbonization goals for cities, which will contribute to improving UM.


Doctors and patients for the purpose of healing and treatment of disease through the contract will make a relationship. Doctors perform the medical practice for the state and illness of patient. Given that the patient did not cooperate in the doctor's medical practice, it is difficult to achieve the...


Focus is on East Pakistans (now Bangladesh) efforts at autonomy. Possibly an independent East Pakistan was inevitable. The 2 areas differ sharply in their geography with the homogeneity of Bangladesh ethnic groups and the heterogeneity of those in West Pakistan reflecting the geographic differences. West Pakistan had 80% of the nations land and only 40% of its population with 98% of the people Muslims. What is now Bangladesh had 20% of the land and 60% of the population of Pakistan; 80% of the people were Muslim 13% Hindu 7% miscellaneous Buddhists Christians and animists. The Basic Democracies Program instituted in 1959 was a commendable effort to involve the masses in the process of politics and government. Although the Bhutto government which took over after the loss of Bangladesh terminated the local government bodies early in 1972 the experiment taught the leaders of village and urban blocks the workings of localized political ward systems and demonstrated how local groups could be linked with regional political parties. From the beginnings of the Basic Democracies Program opposition to the Ayub regime proliferated. The gross national product and the per capita income of Pakistan increased greatly during the Auyb Khan decade but most of the benefits went to a small group of 22 entrepreneurial-industrial families. Pakistans period of industrialization led to a military-industrial-bureaucratic complex. Possibly the fiscal nepotism of the Ayub regime contributed more to the final disruptions than did political repression. Political opposition which is reviewed continued to grow.


Abstract The present study examined the impact of managers′ gender and race on job performance attributions made by their supervisors. Among the most highly successful managers, the performance of women was less likely to be attributed to ability than the performance of men. In addition, the performance of black managers was less likely to be attributed to ability and effort and was more likely to be attributed to help from others than the performance of white managers. The findings also revealed that race differences in several attributions attenuated as supervisors gained more extensive work experience with the managers. Although black managers were perceived to have less favorable career advancement prospects than white managers, the effect of race on career advancement prospects was entirely indirect, operating through job performance ratings and ability attributions.


Issue reports are valuable resources for the continuous maintenance and improvement of software. Managing issue reports requires a significant effort from developers. To address this problem, many researchers have proposed automated techniques for classifying issue reports. However, those techniques fall short of yielding reasonable classification accuracy. We notice that those techniques rely on text-based unimodal models. In this paper, we propose a novel multimodal model-based classification technique to use heterogeneous information in issue reports for issue classification. The proposed technique combines information from text, images, and code of issue reports. To evaluate the proposed technique, we conduct experiments with four different projects. The experiments compare the performance of the proposed technique with text-based unimodal models. Our experimental results show that the proposed technique achieves a 5.07% to 14.12% higher F1-score than the text-based unimodal models. Our findings demonstrate that utilizing heterogeneous data of issue reports helps improve the performance of issue classification.


Creating a link between the form and meaning of unknown words is the initial step in vocabulary learning, enabling learners to build up receptive and productive knowledge of these new words. Research has shown that prompting learners to elaborate on the appropriateness of form-meaning links can be an efficient vocabulary learning exercise (Deconinck, Boers & Eyckmans 2015). In this paper we wish to shed more light on the mental processes that occur during this specific elaborative task by investigating the influence of vocabulary size on the type and number of elaborations that learners make. To this end fifty Dutch-speaking EFL learners rated the congruency they perceived between the form and meaning of 24 English words on a 6-point Likert scale. The motivation of their scores was elicited by means of a think-aloud protocol whose transcriptions were analysed with regard to the type of elaborations made. Both receptive and productive vocabulary size were measured through the LexTale test (Lemhofer & Broersma 2012) and the Productive Vocabulary Levels Test (Laufer & Nation 1999). Awareness of the types of elaborations learners produce can help us to unravel the mental processes behind form-meaning mapping. We identify four main types: cross-lexical associations, sound symbolic associations, word form comparisons and lexical decompositions. The research reveals the influence of vocabulary size on the frequency of occurrence of these different types of elaborations.


[1] Large parallel electric fields (E∥ > 10 mV/m) are sometimes observed with intense filamentary field-aligned currents (J∥ > 10 μA/m2 mapped to 100-km altitude) on transverse scales where kxc/ωpe ≈ 1 above the auroral oval. The ratio of the transverse electric (Ex) and magnetic field (By) variations is approximately the local Alfven speed and increases with decreasing transverse scale in a manner consistent with inertial Alfven wave dispersion. These fields are typically observed in association with density cavities. Statistically, it is shown that the depth of the cavities observed over the altitude range from 350 to 4175 km by the Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) satellite typically lies between 30 and 50% of the background plasma with 90% depletions being observed for 1% of the recorded events. The wave currents embedded within these cavities exceed 100 μA/m2 for 2% of the ensemble and are typically found over transverse widths of ∼2πλe. Using a fluid description of the plasma, we show statistically that electron pressure gradients provide a probable means for balancing the large E∥ found in these structures with a likely but unknown contribution from anomalous resistivity. Furthermore, we find that the ratio of the average drift speed of the bulk electron plasma (vd) to the electron thermal speed (ve) inside these structures is vd/ve ≥ 0.1 and that in at least 2% of cases veh05d/ve ≥ 1.0. On the basis of recent simulation results and the Bohm criterion for double layer formation, these statistics indicate that the large E∥ sometimes observed in density cavities may occur in double layers driven by the Alfven wave current.


The new constitutionalism born in black Francophone Africa at the dawn of the new democracy brought hope to the rationalisation of an autocratic Executive. Unfortunately, this hope is undermined. In this part of the continent in general, and in Cameroon, Benin, Chad and Gabon in particular. This present study highlights on a one hand, a rationalisation of the Executive marked by a limitation of its powers in the first phase of the new constitutionalism which runs from 1990-2000. On the other hand, it is concerned with the issue of the rationalisation of the Executive since 2000 through the resurgence of the reinforcement of the said powers. This study presents measures to be taken in view of putting in place a constitutionalism adapted to the African realities and to ensure a real normalisation of the Executive, as well as strengthening the rule if law.


` Abstract The presence of the "obesity paradox" was presented in publications in almost all major CVD, diabetes mellitus (type 2 DM), in patients with renal pathology and after revascularization of the coronary arteries and transcatheter aortic valve replacement. However, the vast majority of studies are retrospective. At the same time, the comparison groups were formed on the basis of the BMI value, although later publications also took into account the percentage of adipose tissue and waist circumference. However, in the formation of groups, as a rule, no other risk factors were taken into account and, moreover, no division of patients into groups were carried out, taking into account cardiovascular risk, followed by a comparison of the same risk groups of patients with normal or elevated BMI. The purpose of our review was to draw the attention of physicians and researchers that despite the biological possibility of the existence of a positive effect of adipose tissue on cardiovascular diseases, the presence of a large number of errors identified in analysis of the works of researchers "obesity paradox" require to reconsider the existence of this phenomenon in accordance with the recently formulated principles of "exact medicine".


To create a pharmaceutical composition comprising a DP indole carboxylic acid derivatives with a receptor antagonist activity and said compound as an active ingredient, provide allergy agent. The general formula (I): (Wherein ring A is an aromatic carbocyclic ring such as; ring B is含非aromatic nitrogen heterocycles;


Using a qualitative approach this study used Life Course Theory in order to identify the experiences that encouraged first generation college graduates from Appalachian to attend and persist to college graduation. One event identified was the use of online communication technologies. The participants in this study used technology to communicate and form relationships with people outside of their communities. Those relationships seem to have had an impact on how they viewed cultures that are different from their own and how they felt about moving away from home to attend college. The technology also gave then a way to stay connected to their friends and family which was very important to their success. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants and six family members from different areas of the Central Appalachian region.


In case of newly constructed buildings, the construction type is almost Curtain-wall system or large window in building skin. However, these kind of buildings have problems with regulations on building energy efficiency. And national regulations on building energy efficiency limit only the U-factor of window(except infiltration), it is hard to predict energy consumption of Curtain-wall buildings which gain large solar energy in summer. In this study, the influence of LSG(Light to Solar Gain) on energy performance was theoretically analyzed with simulation. LSG is the value of VLT divide SHGC and represents the optical performance of the glass or glazing. The Window & Therm program developed in LBNL was used to analyze window systems and EnergyPlus was used to building energy. Cases of glazing are three types; single coated Low-e clear glazing, tripple coated Low-e clear glazing, tripple coated Low-e tinted glazing. The results of this study are follows; 1) The building energy consumption of Alt-1, 2, 3 were about 300, 253, 259 kWh/㎡ㆍyr respectively. Therefore, improvement of LSG could save the energy up to 16%. 2) The saved energy could be converted 1 billion won as annual benefit of total energy costs 3) SHGC and LSG more influence on cooling energy than heating energy in office buildings.


CaCu3Ti4−xYxO12 (0≤x≤0.12) ceramics were fabricated with conventional solid-state reaction method. Phase structure and microstructure of prepared ceramics were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), respectively. The impedance and modulus tests both suggested the existence of two different relaxation behavior, which were attributed to bulk and grain boundary response. In addition, the conductivity and dielectric permittivity showed a step-like behavior under 405K. Meanwhile, frequency independence of dc conduction became dominant when above 405K. In CCTO ceramic, rare earth element Y3+ ions as an acceptor were used to substitute Ti sites, decreasing the concentration of oxygen vacancy around grain-electrode and grain boundary. The reason to the reduction of dielectric behavior in low frequencies range was associated with the Y doping in CCTO ceramic.


Spatial variation in the distribution of copper, lead and zinc in sediments in Botany Bay, Australia, is described. Sampling was done according to a nested, hierarchical design, and variation was detected at spatial scales from 10 m to several kilometres. In studies where the design of sampling is inadequate, the existence of variation at small spatial scales will confound comparisons at larger scales. Adequate replication at different scales, necessary to avoid confounding, has rarely been done in published studies. Implications of 'patchiness' for environmental sampling and monitoring, and the means of overcoming associated problems, are discussed.


Paddy rice ( Oryza sativa L.) root mass was analyzed from the viewpoint of developmental changes in quantitative characters and growth correlation with leaf mass. The total root length was expressed as (primary root number)×(average primary root length)×("coefficient of branching"), or (total primary root length)×("coefficient of branching"), where the "coefficient of branching" is the ratio of the total root length to the total primary root length. The average primary root length and the "coefficient of branching" increased linearly, while the primary root number, the total primary root length and the total root length increased exponentially with plant age in leaf number. To the increase in the total root mass, the increase in the primary root mass contributed much more than in the degree of primary root branching. The allometric formula : log (root mass) = k·log (leaf area) + b was calculated in earlier and Later growth periods separately. The coefficient of allometry, k, was smaller than l during the earlier period when the main stem leaves emerged quickly, while the value of k exceeded l after the leaf emergence speed became slower. This showed there might be two developmental stages before heading in rice plants, probably corresponding to the conversion of growth phase. Such a switching was presumably regulated by the changes in the primary root mass rather than in the degree of primary root branching.


The study examines salespeople in four distinct career stages. The career stages literature suggests that people's psychological and sociological needs differ among these stages. General support for the theory is found. Job performance and attitudes were influenced by different career stages. The relationship of a salesperson's performance with personal, strategic, and territory factors also is found to vary according to career stage.


This preliminary feasibility study assessed the utility of a novel narrow‐band imaging (NBI) system (Olympus Exera III; 190 series) both as a detection and as a characterization tool in patients undergoing surveillance endoscopy for Barrett's esophagus (BE). Two hundred and twenty‐one areas in 40 patients with BE were examined prospectively. The BE segment was initially evaluated with NBI overview as a 'red flag' technique. Abnormal areas identified with NBI overview were then further interrogated with NBI and a dual focus (DF) magnification system (NBI‐DF) in order to aid characterization. Normal areas on NBI overview were also systematically assessed with NBI‐DF systematically (four quadrants every 2 cm). A confidence system was utilized when each area was assessed with NBI‐DF. All areas on NBI‐DF were classified into three easily distinguishable mucosal patterns: (i) regular pits with regular microvasculature (no dysplasia); (ii) irregular pits with irregular microvasculature (early cancer/high‐grade dysplasia [HGD]); and (iii) equivocal, where the endoscopist was not sure about the pattern (this could be areas with increased brownish discoloration on NBI overview and dilated vasculature but no change in caliber on NBI‐DF [likely inflammation or low‐grade dysplasia: LGD]). Corresponding biopsies of each area were then taken. The sensitivity (Sn), specificity (Sp), positive predictivevalue (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of both modes (NBI overview and NBI‐DF) were then compared with the final histopathological diagnosis. One hundred and eighty‐three of 221 areas (82.8%) did not exhibit any dysplasia on final histopathological assessment. NBI overview and NBI‐DF accurately called all these areas as non‐dysplastic. The 38 areas that appeared suspicious on NBI overview were also further assessed with NBI‐DF: seven of seven were accurately predicted as harboring no dysplasia; nine areas were predicted as irregular, of which four harbored early cancer, one HGD, three LGD and one inflammation on final histopathology assessment. Twenty‐two areas were deemed to be equivocal (final histology: 18 LGD and four inflammation). The Sn, Sp, PPV and NPV for the prediction of dysplasia/early cancer using NBI overview and NBI‐DF were thus 100%, 93.8%, 68.6%, 100% and 100%, 86.2%, 73.3%, 100%, respectively. If NBI‐DF was used in addition to NBI overview, biopsies would have been avoided in 190 areas (86%). In addition, all early cancers and HGD could be accurately identified.


Sensory ataxia and pain are the most common manifestations of paraneoplastic neuropathy. Neurologic manifestations often occur before the cancer — most


In contemporary Morocco, the presence and interaction between Arabic (literary and dialects), Berber, French (legacy of the colonial past) and to a small extent Spanish, generates a competition - especially between French and Arabic - for the symbolic domination that goes over the cultural and social field, bearing on the political framework. Favouring a socio-political approach, we will focus on the use of the different languages in the country in the technological, educational, political spheres and in the mass media, in order to point out the relevance of the use of a specific language in the power wielding for the continuity of the ruling classes.


This article deals with Kuzbass industry modernization for efficient resource usage in key areas of sustainable social and economic region development. The modernization is considered as sustainable development and is connected with the structure and function change of the production system as a result of innovation implementation under the influence of the managing entity. The industrial cluster "Integrated processing of coal and industrial wastes" is considered to be the most significant one in cluster policy strategy in Kuzbass. Its purpose is to produce import-substituting coal and chemical products and related materials using the latest technologies for the deep processing of coal and industrial wastes.


Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dental caries experience among 12-year-old children in
Tirana, Albania, and its relationship with toothbrushing, flossing, sweet consumption, and dental visits. Methods: In this
cross-sectional study, 12-year-old children (N=372) were selected from three schools in three different areas of Tirana
using cluster sampling. Participants� dental status was evaluated using the 1997 World Health Organization caries diagnostic
criteria for Decayed, Missing, or Filled Teeth/Surfaces (DMFT, DMFS) by four calibrated examiners. A questionnaire
on oral health behaviours was completed by each participant. Ethical approval was obtained from the Albanian
Ministry of Health. Informed consent was obtained from the parents by the principals of the schools concerned. Results:
The total number of children in the sample was 372, comprising 195 (52.4%) females and 177 (47.6%) males. The mean
DMFT was 3.8, DMFS=7.98, Significant Caries (SiC) index =7.06, and the prevalence of caries-free children was
14.5%. The percentage of untreated caries or the ratio of D/DMFT was 0.542 (54.2%). Three hundred and twenty-five
(87%) participants reported consuming sweets every day and only 250 (67.%) reported brushing their teeth at least once
a day. The children reported making frequent visits to a dentist, often for relief of pain. Conclusions: Dental caries experience
was seen to be high among 12-year-old children in Tirana, Albania. This is a challenge for the Dental Public
Health Service to improve access to dental care and start preventive programmes.


The article deals with the study of transportation infrastructure of tourism that is considered as an object of management. The author proposes intension, classification, definition, and new managerial algorithm, as well as short-term measures for the relevant companies could achieve a sensible effectiveness increase.


The traditional family rules or clan regulations are an important way of education by which Chinese ancient official culture and the Confucian social ideology spread around the civil community.The Confucian view of justice and profit attaches great importance to the former over the latter,which has made a profound impact on the formulation and contents of the traditional family and clan regulations.It embodies two aspects.On the one hand,the traditional family and clan regulations lay emphasis on ideological and moral education.On the other hand,some admonitions or rules relevant to righteousness prior to benefit are included in most family and clan regulations.


ABSTRACT A mathematical model combining chemical kinetic and reactor geometry is developed for ozone synthesis in dry O2 streams with a wire-tube dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor. Good agreement is found between the predicted ozone concentrations and experimental data. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to elucidate the relative importance of individual reactions. Results indicate that the ground-state oxygen atom is the most important species for O3 generation; however, ozone generation will be inhibited if the O atom is overdosed. The excited species, that is, O(1 D) and O2(b 1Σ), can decompose O3 and suppress ozone synthesis. The model developed is then applied to modify the original DBD reactor design for the enhancement of ozone yield. With a thinner dielectric thickness, more than 10% increase of ozone concentration is achieved.


With the popularity of computers and the rapid development of computer networks. Network teaching accesses to the traditional teaching field,much worse displace. Through the practical experience of teaching of the campus network, The author elaborated the application of both the teaching network environment and the teaching network software.Summed up the application of teaching network on the campus network and the problems that exist .Meanwhile, the author also analyzed this new teaching method, made a bold forecast to the future development of the teaching network from the current situation and the development trend of the network of teaching.


5A students are elite of the country.Along with the development of economics and science and technology,it is found that the proportion of 5A students has changed.The paper holds that the changes are caused more by national conditions than the economic development and they will have profound effect on the quality of higher education.In this research,we use spss16 to predict the changes of 5A students' proportion in the following 10 years,based on which we suggest establishing a pyramid higher education hierarchy,diversifying education system and increasing numbers of institutions of each levels,giving the priority to the development of education of 5B students and paying more attention to undergraduate education.


In previous work, three implicit potential energy surfaces with specific reaction parameters (SRP), namely MPW60, MC-QCISD-SRP, and MCG3-SRP, were developed for the reaction CH4+H→CH3+H2. Forward reaction rate constants obtained by variational transition state theory with multidimensional tunneling (VTST/MT) dynamics calculations on these surfaces give good agreement with recently re-analyzed experimental results. In the present work, again employing VTST/MT, kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) for isotopic variants of the title reaction in both the forward and reverse directions are examined on these SRP surfaces. Various primary and secondary deuterium (D) kinetic isotope reactions are studied; we also calculated the KIE for the reaction between methane and muonium (Mu), which is an ultralight isotope of protium with the Mu/H mass ratio being 0.113. The results are compared with several sets of experimental studies. With the VTST/MT dynamical method and harmonic vibrations, the proposed surfaces predict the ...


A uniaxial magnetic anisotropy is induced by neutron bombardment with an applied magnetic field in Fe- Ni order-disorder transition. After an irradiation at 30 deg C, the annealing of the defects is studied by means of the magnetic anisotropy increase. In most cases the law DELTA E = a log (bt + 1) is verified very well. This law can be explained by a second-order reaction for the annealing of the defects. After an irradiation at 78 deg K an isochronal annealing indicates that the defects that give rise to an enhancement of the diffusion process begin to move only at 100 deg K. The interstitials do not seem to contribute to the ordering process. (auth) H03 H022328 Samples of cuprous oxide are irradiated with fast neutrons. The modifications of the exciton spectrum observed are similar to those produced by an electric field applied to the crystal. The irradiation probably produces charged defects, which produce an internal electric field. The evaluation of this field allows an evaluation of the concentration of defects produced by the irradiation. (auth)


A component of the dark matter could consist of two darkly charged particles with a large mass ratio and a massless force carrier. This `atomic' dark sector could behave much like the baryonic sector, cooling and fragmenting down to stellar-mass or smaller scales. Past studies have shown that cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure constraints rule out $\gtrsim 5\%$ of the dark matter to behave in this manner. However, we show that, even with percent level mass fractions, a dark atomic sector could affect some extragalactic and galactic observables. We track the cooling and merger history of an atomic dark component for much of the interesting parameter space. Unlike the baryons, where stellar feedback (driven by nuclear physics) delays the formation and growth of galaxies, cooling dark atomic gas typically results in disks forming earlier, leaving more time for their destruction via mergers. Rather than disks in Milky Way sized halos, we find the end product is typically spheroidal structures on galactic scales or dark atom fragments distributed on halo scales. This result contrasts with previous studies, which had assumed that the dark atoms would result in dark disks. Furthermore the dark atoms condense into dense clumps, analogous to how the baryons fragment on solar-mass scales. We estimate the size of these dark clumps, and use these estimates to show that viable atomic dark matter parameter space is ruled out by stellar microlensing, by the half-light radii of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and by Milky Way mass-to-light inferences.


The accepted rural-urban migration theory suggests that economic gains are made by moving from a rural to an urban area. Its premise is: "If you stay, you lose." However, are losses still the rule? And, if so, how big is the economic loss once other factors are controlled for? In this paper, we specifically focus on the income effects of migration decisions among young individuals from rural areas, using microdata for Sweden. We find that, contrary to accepted theory, staying in a rural region most often is insignificant in relation to an individual's income level. When taking housing values into account, it can even be financially beneficial for some to stay in a rural area. Only for highly educated individuals is it consistently financially beneficial to move to an urban area, also after controlling for housing costs.


The collective monograph contains the results of the generalization of the theoretical material, as well as the authors' applied research and development of graphic design based on modern scientific methods.


With the aid of the spectral method with a preliminary enrichment in tannin, the niobium and tantalum content was determined in some humid and arid clays of the Russian platform. The investigated samples were composed of 354 specimens. The average content of niobium in humid clays is 0.0020%, of tantalum 0.00024% (the Nb/Ta ratio is 8.4) and in arid clays is respectively the content of niobium 0.00133% and the content of tantalum 0.00009% (the Nb/Ta ratio is 14.8). The average value of the content of niobium content for all studied clays is 0.00183% and of the tantalum content 0.00020%, the Nb/Ta ratio being 9.1. In clays an interconnection of niobium with tantalum, as well as with aluminium, titanium, zirconium, and hafnium was observed. However, on the background of this connection some separation of the named elements is noted. A tendency for the Nb/Ta ratio shift from the region of matter removal towards the center of the marine basin was observed. The study of niobium and tantalum distribution over different clay fractions showed that one part of elements is connected with zircon and titanium minerals in aleuosand more » fraction (0.1-- 0.01 mm). Another, approximately similar part is contained in the proper clay fraction (<0. 01 mm), the tantalum somewhat more concentrating in the aleurosand fraction and niobium in the clay fraction. (P.C.H.) « less


Current efforts at 'low-carbon transition' are marked by a striking paradox: the 'phenomenal' and 'historically incredible' resurgence of coal. Exploration of the source of this conundrum opens up an analysis of current trends regarding low-carbon energy transitions in terms of the forging and emergence of 'cosmopolitan climate risk communities'. Such an analysis is a case study in a broader shift to a methodologically cosmopolitan social science that involves empirical examination of processes of cosmopolitization and associated social, and not just technological, challenges of low-carbon transition. This leads to exposition of an emerging constellation of energy and political regimes connecting 'clean coal' with a 'liberalism 2.0' centred on a rising China. The low-carbon society emergent from these developments, however, is shown to be marked with intra-national inequality, violence, absurdity and a haunted schizophrenia more reminiscent of coal's previous Dickensian heyday than the progressive and normatively cosmopolitan visions of much 'low-carbon transition' literature. The implications and possible emerging configurations of such a 'clean coal'-based liberalism 2.0 are explored with particular reference to the changing natures and social definitions of techno-nationalism and cosmopolitan innovation.


In industry and big organisations facility management has become a managing tool of more and more importance. In times of decreasing profit rates and harder competition every company is forced to develop better strategies for resource and facility management. In this context the questions arise: What is facility management, what offers GIS and how can Geographic Information Systems improve facility management?


A new surgical technique is described which permits section of all nervous connections of the posterior third of the cerebral mantle of the rabbit without impairing the blood supply. This method is ea


The formation factor and half-life of ..cap alpha.. particles in rapidly rotating nuceli are calculated in the framework of the theory of nuclear reactions (the Feshbach theory). In the case of /sup 122/Xe, it is shown that with increasing angular momentum, an oblate nucleus can be an emitter of ..cap alpha.. particles. The calculation of the half-life of the ..cap alpha.. particles shows the importance of the formation factor in the case of rotation.


Burial practices are currently of considerable interest in terms of the developing patterns of Plateau culture sequences. Material documentation of prehistoric and historic burial procedure is now extensive though admittedly controversial in sequential interpretation. Suggestions as to covert behavioral responses accompanying the disposition of physical remains and attendant paraphernalia are much less satisfactory. The authors recently had called to their attention a cache of aboriginal artifacts which suggested a funeral practice, perhaps widespread in the Plateau, but occurring supplementary to the archaeo-ethnically recognized forms of burial.


The article presents the case study which depicts possibilities of conducting bibliometric analyses on the basis of data from open citation index called OpenCitations Corpus by its developers. For cited articles, which came from PLOS ONE magazine the data from the entire corpus was extracted and formatted in such way to allow conducting analyzes in external tools (Excel spreadsheet, calculative-visualisation application – Gephi). Then some examples of analysis and visualisation of graphs of article's citations were conducted. On the examples of possibilities of the SPARQL language that enables conducting analysis directly on the OpenCitations platform which is available as a WWW service or launched in one's own computing environment were also presented.


People use Mental Models while interacting with physical systems. Designers have been using knowledge elicitation techniques to infer user's mental model in order to design interfaces compatible with it. However, to use those techniques correctly we need to define a model that shows how Mental Models are constructed and simulated during the execution of the elicitation task. Canas and Antoli (1998) proposed that a Mental Model is a dynamic representation created in Working Memory (WM) by combining information stored in Long Term Memory (the user's Conceptual Model of the system) and characteristics extracted from the environment. This paper describes an experiment that analyses the role of the WM components in the construction of Mental Models. It is concluded that both structure and function information of Mental Models is processed at the visuospatial component of WM. In addition, data supports the idea that function information is also processed at the verbal component of WM. Finally, some theoretical and practical implications for research on Mental Models and the use of knowledge elicitation techniques are discussed.


First time-dependent measurements with the LHCb experiment are presented using 36 pb −1 data collected during the 2010 data taking at the LHC. The B 0 s mixing frequency is measured to be ∆m s = 17.63 ± 0.11(stat.) ± 0.04(syst.) ps −1. A flavour tagged time-dependent angular analysis using B 0 s → J/ΨΦ decays allows to derive confidence regions in the φ


We measured the micrometer-scale fluctuation of the indium contents in a 50 μm x 30 μm region of annealed Ga0.8In0.2N/GaN multi quantum wells by mapping the counts of indium fluorescent X-rays excited by a 1.3 μm x 3.8 μm X-ray micro-beam. The mapping indicates that two distinct regions – indium-rich and indium-poor regions – are formed by the annealing. The indium contents in the island-shaped low-indium regions are 20% less than in the surrounding high-indium region. As the island-shaped low-indium regions clearly coincide with the low-radiative regions as observed by Hg-lamp-excited fluorescent microscopy, we believe that the low-radiative regions are a result not of indium segregation but of the generation of defects such as plane defects. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


OBJECTIVE To investigate the drug resistance of extended spectrum β-lactamases(ESBLs) producing strains in order to provide references for the clinical application of drugs.METHODS ESBLs were detected by double synergy test and disk confirmatory test.Disk diffusion test was used for antimicrobial susceptibility and comparisons of the susceptibility rates were drew between the ESBLs producers and nonproducers.RESULTS ESBLs producers were 35 among the total 165 Enterobacteriaceae strains.Among the 35 strains 15 strains(27.8%) were Escherichia coli,and Klebsiella pneumoniae were 20 strains(30.3%).ESBLs were not detected in other Enterobacteriaceae strains.The rate of drug resistance of the ESBLs producers was higher than that of nonproducers.CONCLUSIONS ESBLs are the most important resistant mechanisms of Enterobacteriaceae to antibiotics.And it is very necessary to detect and control the ESBLs producers standardly for clinical microbiology department.


To evaluate how well the tonsils can be viewed, in addition to echogenicity, using ultrasound, and to compare these results between children younger and older than the age of 3.


Effusion cooling was a popular technology integrated into the design of gas turbine combustor liners. A staggering amount of research was completed that quantified performance with respect to operating conditions and cooling hole geometric properties; however, most of these investigations did not address the influence of the manufacturing process on the hole shape. This study completed an adiabatic wall numerical analysis using the realizable k-e turbulence model of a laser-drilled hole that had a nozzled profile with an area ratio of 0.24 and five additional cylindrical, nozzled, diffusing, and filleted holes that yielded the same hole mass flow rate at representative engine conditions. The traditional methods for quantifying blowing ratio yielded the same value for all holes that was not useful considering the substantial differences in film cooling performance. It was proposed to define hole mass flux based on the outlet y-cross sectional area projected onto the inclination angle plane. This gave blowing ratios that correlated to better and worse cooling performance for the diffusing and nozzled holes respectively. The diffusing hole delivered the best film cooling due to having the lowest effluent velocity and greatest amount of in-hole turbulent production, which coincided with the worst discharge coefficient.Copyright © 2017 by ASME


New rare earth-rich compounds RE23Ni7Mg4 (RE = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm) were synthesized from the elements in sealed tantalum tubes in a water-cooled sample chamber of an induction furnace. The samples were characterized via X-ray powder diffraction. The RE23Ni7Mg4 compounds crystallize with the hexagonal Pr23Ir7Mg4 type structure, space group P63mc. The structures of La23Ni7Mg4 (a = 1013.7(3), c = 2295.2(8) pm, wR2 = 0.0371, 2283 F2 values, 75 variables) and Pr23Ni7Mg4 (a = 992.8(3), c = 2243.0(5) pm, wR2 = 0.0634, 2462 F2 values, 74 variables) were refined from single crystal X-ray diffractometer data. Striking structural motifs are nickel centered trigonal prisms formed by the rare earth elements and isolated Mg4 tetrahedra (319 pm as Mg–Mg distance in La23Ni7Mg4). The trigonal RE6Ni prisms exhibit short RE–Ni distances (287–306 pm in La23Ni7Mg4). The prisms are condensed via common edges, leading to a rigid three-dimensional network in which the Mg4 tetrahedra are embedded. Temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility data of Ce23Ni7Mg4 indicate Curie-Weiss behavior with an experimental magnetic moment of 2.54 μB/Ce atom, indicative for stable trivalent cerium. No magnetic ordering is evident down to 3 K.


Pulmonary hypertension significantly changes biventricular anatomy and physiology, frequently evolving to clinical deterioration and right ventricular failure. The case of a woman developing atrial arrhythmias complicating dipyridamole stress in concomitance with scintigraphic "D-shaped" left ventricle is briefly reported. Although rare, our finding may suggest that nonselective vasodilators should be used with caution in this clinical setting.


Dentine hypersensitivity is a common problem found in many adult populations. Around 57% world population is suffering from this problem. The commonest teeth affected are the premolars. Dentine hypersensitivity peaked between 40 and 50 yrs of age, followed by decline with age. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prote ctive action of arginine against the cavaties formed in e namel. For this purpose, hydrogels, contining argin ine were formulated and then after evaluating its several pa rameters, in vivo study was also performed in lower and upper cannines of helthy rats and results were quite sati sfactory, when compared with control groups.


The breeding blanket will be the component in charge of extracting and amplifying the neutronic power in future Fusion Power Plants. In addition, it has to warrant the reactor tritium self-sufficiency through effi-cient breeding and recovery. An additional function is the protection of the vacuum vessel (VV) and mag-nets against radiation [1.]. Various blanket concepts have been proposed along the years based on different breeder materials, neutron multipliers and power extraction methods (coolants). Within the EUROfusion Power Plant Physics and Technology (PPPT) Program (2014-2018) four breeding blankets have been investigated [1.], among them, the Dual Coolant Lead-Lithium (DCLL) blanket. This concept uses the eutectic alloy of lead-lithium (PbLi) as tritium breeder, neutron multiplier and tritium carrier. In addition, the PbLi acts as main coolant, being a quasi-self-cooled concept. The structural material is EUROFER, while the secondary coolant, mainly used to refrigerate the first wall (FW) and the blanket structures, is helium (He) at a pressure of 8 MPa. The proposed program considered a "low temperature" version of DCLL, i.e. with a maximum operational temperature of 550 ºC, in order to allow the use of conventional materials and technologies. One of the major consequences in this limitation was that the potential thermodynamic efficiency, which is the main advantage of this blanket technology, is reduced [2.].


[Objective] By finding out the circumstances of sports injury of physical education students through surveys,so that put forward the corresponding measures to prevent the occurrence of sports injuries. [Methods] Through the questionnaire survey,investigated the situation of sports injuries of physical education students of Neijiang Normal University,statistical process and analysis of data were carried out. [Results] Injury incidence of physical education students was 65.7%,the incidence of sports injuries from low grade to high grade gradually increased,boys' sports injury incidence was significantly higher than girls;51.1% of sports injuries took place in the extra-curricular activities or training;74.6% of the sports injuries occurred in the lower limbs,including ankle and foot injuries at top of the list(accounting for 43.4%);sports injuries occurred mainly in basketball,track and field,football,different sports in the parts of the distribution of trauma had a greater difference;no matter what kind of sports,the top three categories sports injuries were: muscle tendon trauma,skin and subcutaneous tissue trauma,joint ligament injury;there was a huge difference in choosing the seven common causes of sports injuries to teachers and students. [Conclusion] Emphasis on students' health knowledge and sports safety education,conscientious implement of the warm-up exercises before exercise,strengthening on training and protection for the vulnerable sites,emphasis on the training of students' self-protection skills on the trauma,paying attention to the security of equipment,etc. are effective measures for the prevention of sports injuries.


Decays of 232Th series isotopes such as 212Bi212Po and 208Tl form background events for underground physics experiments. In this study, we performed new delayed coincidence with a day-scale window using data of KamLAND, a 1 kton liquid scintillator detector. We firstly searched for a coincidence of 220Rn–216Po (T1/2 = 0.15 s), prompt coincidence (PC), and then searched for events of 212Bi212Po or 208Tl decays within 2 day from PC. It yields ~80% tagging efficiency with modest, ~10%, deadtime despite the requirement of long time correlation thanks to low accidental coincidence rate of PC. This method will be newly introduced to analyses of solar neutrino measurement at 3 MeV region with KamLAND and neutrinoless double-beta decay search with KamLAND-Zen to reduce the backgrounds.


Ice hockey can be a violent sport as evidenced by the fighting among the members of an ice hockey team of 13-year-old boys from mixed racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Two series of eight art sessions were used to help the boys develop respect for themselves and others, to solve conflicts without combat, and to build more positive interpersonal relations. Through the art experience, the boys expressed their feelings and came to know one another in a more gentle and reflective way than on the ice and in the locker room. Their relationships with their coaches became more respectful as well. The coaches noted less fighting and more cooperation during practice and games, and the parents reported improved behavior at home as well. The Hockey/Art Alliance has been developed to be a model program that can be used by other groups in various settings.


The finite volume method is applied to solve unsteady three-dimensional compressible Navier–Stokes equations on unstructured meshes. High-temperature gas effects altering the aerodynamics of vehicles are taken into account. Possibilities of the use of graphics processor units (GPUs) for the simulation of hypersonic flows are demonstrated. Solutions of some test cases on GPUs are reported, and a comparison between computational results of equilibrium chemically reacting and perfect air flowfields is performed. Speedup of solution on GPUs with respect to the solution on central processor units (CPUs) is compared. The results obtained provide promising perspective for designing a GPU-based software framework for practical applications.The finite volume method is applied to solve unsteady three-dimensional compressible Navier–Stokes equations on unstructured meshes. High-temperature gas effects altering the aerodynamics of vehicles are taken into account. Possibilities of the use of graphics processor units (GPUs) for the simulation of hypersonic flows are demonstrated. Solutions of some test cases on GPUs are reported, and a comparison between computational results of equilibrium chemically reacting and perfect air flowfields is performed. Speedup of solution on GPUs with respect to the solution on central processor units (CPUs) is compared. The results obtained provide promising perspective for designing a GPU-based software framework for practical applications.


Outside Jiayu Pass: sand and cobbles for a thousand li, a dearth of water and grass, little trace of humanity. Since ancient times it has been thus. The Former Han had business on the frontier and established the commanderies of Anxi and Dunhuang. Since our exalted emperor opened the New Dominion (Xinjiang) in the northwest, tens of thousands of li have "come onto the registers and onto the map" (ru bantu) in their entirety.


Cultural quality education has an important impact on the bringing up of qualified graduates and on upgrading the quality of education in institutions of higher learning.As an entirely new mode of higher education for bringing up students in a popular style,the independent college has the urgent issue of how to establish a suitable system of cultural quality education to settle.Some ideas about establishing such a system are given on the basis of an analysis of the issue.


The invention discloses a feed additive and application thereof in the disease-resistance and yield increasing of laying hens. The produced feed additive is prepared by pulverizing compound Chinese medicinal composition and nutritive composition in a weight ratio of 1:1 to comprehensively regulate the metabolic mechanism in the laying hens, enhance the immunologic function of the laying hens and improve the egg-laying performance. Due to the adoption of the feed additive, the egg yield is increased by 12.4 percent; the death rate is reduced by 6.8 percent; the feed/egg ratio benefit is increased by 9.4 percent, so that the indexes of the quality of the eggs are more excellent than those of the control group obviously; the immunologic function of the laying hens is improved greatly; the probability of disease infection is reduced obviously; even if in the common disease infection period, the decline rate of the egg yield of an experimental group is 13.8 percent less than that of the control group; and the comprehensive use effect is very obvious.


PURPOSE: A manufacturing method of polysiloxane [polysiloxane] - polycarbonate copolymer is provided to improve the reaction rate of silicone monomer and secure excellent low temperature-resistance property and flexible rate by adjusting input timing of silicone monomer depending on molecular weight of oligomer property polycarbonate. CONSTITUTION: : A manufacturing method of polysiloxane [polysiloxane] - polycarbonate copolymer comprises the steps of : manufacturing 'oligomer property polycarbonate [oligomeric polycarbonate] with adjusted viscosity average molecular weight of 3,000-20,000 (i), adding and blending hydroxy-terminated siloxane with the manufactured 'oligomer property polycarbonate (ii), and reacting and polymerizing the 'oligomer property polycarbonate and the hydroxy-terminated siloxane under the condition of interfacial reaction (iii). The number average molecular weight injected to the above reaction step (ii) is 2,500-15,000. [Reference numerals] (AA) Input oligomer property; (BB) Input polymer property; (CC,KK) Oligomer property; (DD,LL) Separate heavy liquid; (EE,MM) Polymer property 1; (FF,NN) Polymer property 2; (GG,OO) Washing; (HH,QQ) Catalyst; (II,PP) Assembly, dry; (JJ,RR) Shipment


Simple Summary Understanding freezing is essential for stable cryopreservation of sperm. In the freezing process, ice crystal is developed from a change of matter from liquid water to solid water. Unfortunately, they tend to make damage of membrane in frozen sperm. From a perspective, sperm membrane damage due to ice crystal formation, magnetized freezing water that has easy supercooling, and the construction of smaller ice crystals because weaken the hydrogen bonds between the water molecules also has an infinite potential to cryopreserve sperm. Here, we applied the magnetization technique for making of freezing extender, and the extenders were used in the freezing process in sperm cryopreservation. As a result, sperm membrane damage was reduced in frozen sperm by a magnetized freezing extender, and we determined that in vitro fertility of frozen sperm by magnetized extender was improved. In conclusion, the magnetization technique would be useful for sperm cryopreservation. Furthermore, the study suggests that the technique has great potential for storing frozen material for biological aspects. Abstract Magnetized water is defined as the amount of water that has passed through a magnet. The magnetic field weakens the hydrogen bonds between the water molecules, leading to the magnetized liquid acquiring special characteristics such as easy supercooling and forming smaller ice crystals. We researched the influences of a magnetized freezing extender on cell membrane damage and in vitro fertilization of boar sperm during cryopreservation. The freezing extenders were passed through 0, 2000, 4000, and 6000 gausses (G) of magnetic devices using a liquid cycling pump system and then used for the sperm freezing process. The damage to plasma, acrosomal, and mitochondrial membranes in frozen-thawed spermatozoa was investigated by flow cytometry, and motility was assessed using the CASA system. The fertility of frozen-thawed sperm was estimated using in vitro fertilization. The damage to the membranes was significantly decreased in the magnetized freezing extender by the 6000 G magnetic field compared to that of the control in frozen-thawed sperm, and motility was increased in the 6000 G group. Although there were no significant differences in the cleavage rates of in vitro fertilized oocytes among the treatment groups, the ratio of blastocyst formation increased in the magnetized freezing extender groups compared with that in the control group. The number of blastocysts was significantly higher in the 4000 G group than in the 0 G group. In conclusion, these results suggest that a magnetized freezing extender could improve the freezability of sperm and the development of oocytes fertilized in vitro with frozen-thawed sperm.


The studies of the service life and residual life of various insulating materials are described. The known mathematical models of insulation aging applicable to AC power cable lines are considered. Based on the models and the previously proposed approach, the service life and residual life of cables with XLPE, EPR and PVC insulation are estimated. The assessment is carried out using the data from monitoring the voltage and current of a 6 kV cable transmission line laid at one of the electric power enterprises. Air temperature obtained from open sources. The results showed the applicability of all models for estimating the residual life due to the small difference in the predicted life. In real conditions, the service life of the listed types of insulation can be different due to their dielectric and design features


Several important properties of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs), such as their mass-radius ratio, equation of state and magnetic field topology, can be inferred from precise observations and modelling of their X-ray light curves. In the present study, we model the thermal X-ray signals originated in MSPs, all the way from numerically solving the surrounding magnetospheres up to the ray tracing of the emitted photons and the final computation of their light curves and spectra. The magnetosphere is solved by performing general relativistic force-free simulations of a rotating neutron star (NS) endowed with a simple centered dipolar magnetic field, for many different stellar compactness and pulsar misalignments. From these solutions, we derive an emissivity map over the surface of the star, based on the electric currents in the magnetosphere. In particular, the emission regions (ERs) are determined in this model by spacelike four-currents that reach the NS. We show that this assumption, together with the inclusion of the gravitational curvature on the force-free simulations, lead to non-standard ERs facing the closed-zone of the pulsar, in addition to other ERs within the polar caps. The combined X-ray signals from these two kinds of ERs (both antipodal) allow to approximate the non-trivial interpulses found in several MSPs light curves. Our modelled X-ray signals are compared against very accurate NICER observations of four target pulsars: PSR J043-4715, PSR J1231-1411, PSR J2124-3358 and PSR J0030+0451; achieving very good simultaneous fits for their light curves and spectral distributions.


The vaccines that could make a big impact on healthcare, from radical new flu vaccines to simplified meningococcal vaccine regimens.


The aim of this thesis is a possibility of using the Arduino development kit as a Web server. The theoretical part includes a literature search focused on basic terms, history and development of microcomputers. A further presents with the project from the Arduino development boards through additional boards to the development environment and programming language. In the practical part is designed the specific Web server solution using a development kit Arduino Mega 2560 and the Ethernet Shield. There are described components including their electrical wiring. Through a web browser is possible to control connected peripherals or obtain data from programmable pins. The proposed solution is physically connected and tested. The project is appraised in the end of the thesis.


Background: Aim: Methods: Results: Conclusion: Scrub typhus is a mite borne Rickettsial disease caused by 'Orientia tsutsugamushi'. It is an emerging disease in India. The clinical manifestations are protean and therefore diagnosis warrants a high index of suspicion. To study the clinico epidemiological pattern of Scrub typhus among patients presenting to our hospital. All clinically suspected cases of scrub typhus presenting to our hospital over a period of six months were analysed retrospectively. Forty five patients above the age of twelve years were diagnosed clinically and confirmed by immunochromatography test for IgM antibodies. Scrub typhus is a re- emerging disease in South India. Early diagnosis and treatment with Doxycycline is highly effective. eschar, immunochromatography, doxycycline, Orientia tsutsugamushi


Review(s) of: Women of the Gobi, by Kate James. Pluto Press, Melbourne, 2006. RRP $29.95, ISBN 1864033290; Inside the Global Jihad, by Omar Nasiri. Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2006. RRP $32.95, ISBN 1921215097; No Country is an Island, by Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam, Devika Hovell & George Williams. University of NSW Press, 2006. RRP $34.95, ISBN 0868409065.


In 2015, there is no reliable way to predict or reliably prevent the autoimmune destructive process of the beta-cells resulting in type 1 diabetes. Once it strikes, it becomes an incurable, chronic disease that takes an immediate toll on life's quality well-being and imparts secondary complications years after onset. It is an expensive and difficult disease to manage. Conventional treatments require manual intervention involving insulin pump therapy and frequent blood glucose monitoring. New technology is quickly being developed, combining glucose sensors with precision exogenous insulin delivery that shows promise in improving glycemic regulation, but is still years away from widespread application. Biological therapies involving beta-cell replacement are the closest to a cure. Years ago, immediately vascularized whole-pancreas transplantation was developed to treat a small and select group of adults that display extreme labile glycemic control usually accompanied by significant frequency of hypoglycemic unawareness. Successful beta-cell replacement therapy by this method has successfully treated tens of thousands and has proven the potential of biological therapy to eliminate the need for exogenous insulin to normalize hemoglobin A1c levels without hypoglycemia so long as recurrent autoimmunity and allograft rejection are prevented with immunosuppression (1). An elegant refinement on that biologic treatment involves islet transplantation. It is emerging as a safe and highly effective therapy to restore glycemic control also through endogenous insulin secretion in a select patient group similar to pancreas transplantation with the attendant requirement of immunosuppression (2). However, several limitations exist with pancreas and islet transplantation, primarily a shortage of insulin-producing tissue and the need for chronic immunosuppression, which prevents it from becoming a widespread therapy for adults and children. To overcome the shortage of tissue, new sources need to be developed from expanded cell lines that are reliably and durably glucose responsive and do not carry a neoplastic potential. In addition, it will be necessary to implant the cells on a scaffold delivery device that will support the survival of the cells in situ. Several researchers have turned to bioengineering to create scaffold materials aimed at protecting the transplanted cells from the inflammatory immune response of the host while providing adequate nutrients for cell survival. This approach is also highly attractive for transplanting cells, not just a beta-cell or equivalent, as it provides a 3-dimensional structure for attachment and growth. Recently, Yuan et al. (3) reported on the development of a scaffold material consisting of silk fibroin and collagen IV, and its use in the transplantation of mouse insulinoma (MIN6) cells to streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice. This work highlighted the possibility of using naturally occurring extracellular matrix materials in the construction of scaffolds for cell transplantation that support revascularization while preventing immune cell infiltration into the graft. There are a number of reports on the use of extracellular matrix components to improve cell survival and function, of both islet and single insulin-producing cells, in scaffold materials (4– 7). The major innovation here is the use of silk fibroin in the formulation of the scaffolds. Silk fibroin has been demonstrated to increase pancreatic b-cell mass when administered orally to mice (8), making it an interesting and appropriate choice. Indeed, when MIN6 cells were cultured on the silk fibroin scaffolds, an increase in 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-Diphenyltetrazo lium Bromide (MTT) signal, a common assay to measure cell viability and metabolic activity, was observed compared with controls. Whether this increase was due simply to the increased surface area for the cells to grow on relative to controls,


It has been my privilege during the past five years to visit a major portion of the institutions of higher education and other organizations in Europe actively engaged in developing the field of agricultural economics-teaching, research, or extension. These visits have afforded an opportunity for meeting and conferring with many of the leaders. It is to be expected that since the economic interests of agriculture differ in various countries, the emphasis placed upon teaching, research and extension projects would reflect these differences. Nevertheless, the observer attempting to appraise the situation is struck rather forcibly by the wide variations in "keystone" activities. In certain countries attention is centered on one phase to the exclusion of all others. In England the work had its origin largely in detailed cost accounting. "Costings" still receive the lion's share of attention. In Denmark, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden and Norway, farm accounting in its simpler forms with a wide-spread application serves as a basis for research studies. Germany is noted for its development of the field of agrarian policies (Agrarpolitik). In this country farm management and farm labor also claim the attention of a goodly number of workers. The agricultural economists of France, in a large measure, confine their attention to the philosophy of the subject. Rural Law and Legislation is a basic course. Political events in central Europe, especially in Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, and Roumania have centered attention upon problems connected with the transformation of large estates into smaller properties--"land reform." The work in Italy owes its beginnings to questions of farm valuation for taxation purposes. Since the "productive capacity" of the land is an important consideration in matters of taxation, Italy has developed to a high degree the technique of land valuation. The American observer is struck with the general absence


This thesis examines the modelling and control of a hydraulic servo system. Both a theoratical and a practical approach are discussed. The used set-up consists of an one DOF hydraulic system with an electronically controlled servo valve. A nonlinear parametric model of the system, several fitted linear black box models as well as a LPV model combining these fits are determined. The models are verified with the use of experimental data. Combining position and pressure feedback, classical hydraulic controllers, H∞ controllers and a LPV controller are designed to control the position of the rod. The design of the controllers takes into account several aspects of the system's dynamics like the damping effect of pressure feedback and the nonlinear characteristics dependent on the position of the rod. The controllers are implemented using an analogue control board as well as a discrete dSpace system. In discretisation of the control strategies for implementation on a discrete dSpace system, a new algorithm is derived for LPV structures. Simulations and experimental results indicate the benefits of a variable controller over a classical controller, but show the limitations to this strategy as well. This reports concludes with the suggestion that the next step in researching servo hydraulic actuators, is the combination of hydraulic servo control and mimo systems. For this purpose, a two DOF hydraulic system with varying dynamic interaction between the DOF's is designed and built. To facilitate the design of a mimo controller, MCDesign is developed, a tool for mimo controller design based on measurements data from a mimo system.


ABSTRA C T We suggest that Jovian planets will survive the late stages of stellar evolution, and that white dwarfs will retain planetary systems in wide orbits (* 5 au). Utilizing evolutionary models for Jovian planets, we show that infrared imaging with 8-m class telescopes of suitable nearby white dwarfs should allow us to resolve and detect companions * 3MJUP. Detection of massive planetary companions to nearby white dwarfs would prove that such objects can survive the final stages of stellar evolution, place constraints on the frequency of mainsequence stars with planetary systems dynamically similar to our own and allow direct spectroscopic investigation of their composition and structure.


We investigated the effects of processing geometry of silica-filled isobutylene-isoprene rubber (IIR) compounds on its mechanical properties and silica dispersion, using a two roll mill and an internal mixer (banbury mixer). The compound processed with the two roll mill showed the longer induction time (), higher maximum torque (), and better silica dispersion than the compound processed with the internal mixer; however, showed slightly the lower cure index (). The mechanical properties (hardness, 300% modulus, tensile strength, elongation) of the compound processed with two roll mill were higher than compound done with the internal mixer.


Summary The paper describes an example of the implementation of crosshole seismic testing for pressure and shear waves at the site of proposed construction of Nuclear Power Plant "Paks-2" (Hungary). Based on the comparision of summary seismograms it was concluded that method demonstrates the best results at distances between wells of 25 27 m.


Mei Yiqi was one of the most renowned higher education thinker and reformers in Chinese near and modern era,He has made the prominent contribution for Qinghua University's development.education idea which formed in the long-term practice,in was rich and the connotation,affected profoundly.This article mainly discusses Mei Yiqi's education idea from his school idea,the general education,govering school by professors and so on.


There is no definite record on the obiit date of ZHANG Xu. Because of different views to materials, there are some divergence about the death dates of ZHANG Xu in Academic Circles. It is very difficult for us to get correct conclusion if tangling with those materials. But if we study on ZHANG Xus life experience, we could discover that ZHANG Xu died in the year 759, as he completed his office in Changshu in between the years of 735 and 736 before going to the capital city for a new office, and the year 746, he retired to Luoyang at the age beyond 60. Later on in LI Bais poem "Tour of Fierce Tiger" it is stated that ZHANG Xu met with him in a restaurant in Liyang in the year 756,and in his own poem ZHANG Xu wrote:"We die of no significance."In the "Thousand Characters",the note of "February eighth of Qianyuan the second year" should be made by ZHANG Xu. Therefore, he must have died in Qianyuan the second year or the year of 759.


The use of osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) continues to decline in medical practice, despite an increasing number of osteopathic physicians.

 This pilot study was designed to determine if a brochure created to increase knowledge about osteopathic medicine and OMM was read by patients, reviewed as being helpful, needed modifications and increased patient understanding of and willingness to receive OMM in preparation for a large scale trial that will assess this in both the hospital and ambulatory settings.

 The study was performed using an educational brochure and 2 closed questionnaires. Twenty-seven patients of either inpatient or observation status aged 18 and above with English literacy were enrolled. Participants first completed a pre-questionnaire with questions regarding understanding of OMM and willingness to receive treatment. They then read the provided educational brochure, which contained a checkbox to verify the material was read in its entirety. Participants completed a post-questionnaire with similar questions. The results were analyzed with Wilcoxon signed rank test with 95% confidence to observe any changes in pre- and post-questionnaire responses.

 Of the participants, 48.1% provided verification that they read the brochure. A significant increase in patient willingness to receive OMM as part of their treatment regimen was observed for those who read the brochure (P=.008 ). No significant change was seen for those who didn't read the brochure (P=.26). Additionally, 100% of participants indicated that the brochure was helpful, and 100% of participants indicated a better understanding of OMM. Cost remained a significant barrier to accepting or pursuing OMM treatment.

 This pilot study demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in willingness to receive treatment after reviewing the designed brochure. It also identified a need to convey information regarding cost of OMM treatment to patients and a need to better emphasize the checkbox located within the brochure for verification purposes. The brochure and study design proved feasible and will provide the foundation for a larger scale trial looking to assess if a patient educational handout improves understanding of OMM and willingness to receive treatment in the hospital and ambulatory settings.


One major world view that dominates the field of developmental psychology is the organismic world view. This world view depicts individuals, including children, as active agents who know the world in terms of their own operations upon it. Individuals are seen as being in control of their own learning. This control is exercised by individuals initiating and maintaining their own learning opportunities within a responsive social context. The responsive social context is increasingly seen by developmental psychologists (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Wood, 1982) as of fundamental importance for the acquisition of intellectual skills. It is within responsive social contexts that individuals acquire not only specific skills but also generic knowledge about how to learn. It is this generic knowledge that allows individuals a measure of control over, and hence independence in, these social contexts. Educational policy statements, school prospectuses and, more recently, the Core Curriculum, abound with aims and objectives...


Introduction: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome characterized by diffuse pain and tender points on digit pressure. The importance of this syndrome is its impact on quality of life. One possible influencers of this impact may be the low resilience of patients. Objectives: To measure the resilience in patients with FM; to measure the quality of life in patients with FM; and to relate and compare the degree of resilience with demographic and socioeconomic varieties and quality of life. Material and methods: Data collection was performed at the Rheumatology Outpatient Clinic of the Conjunto Hospitalar de Sorocaba. Demographic and social data questionnaire, Wagnild and Young resilience scale, and SF-36 quality of life questionnaire were applied. For the analysis it was used the Spearman correlation coefficient. Results: Twenty-six women were studied, mean age of 47.7±11.6 years and average schooling of 8.2 years of study. There was a predominance of patients with low resilience. The statistical analysis did not observe any parameter (age, pain intensity, FM impact or quality of life) that correlates moderately or strongly with the degree of resilience. Conclusion: FM patients followed at a tertiary care setting have low degree of resilience, high impact of FM and poor quality of life.


Mastitis is the most economically and productively important disease in the bovine milk production chain. The present work aimed to evaluate the clinical-epidemiological behavior of bovine mastitis in dairy herds of private producers in Villa Clara province. Fifty-five producers, from four municipalities, from ten Credit and Service Cooperatives (CCSs), were included. California Mastitis Test (CMT), somatic cell count (SCC) and bacteriological isolation from milk from individual rooms were performed. Of the 1246 quarters analyzed containing 311 animals, 32.9 % were affected by subclinical mastitis, 0.32 % by clinical mastitis and 1.3 % were atrophied. The main bacteriological isolates of subclinical mastitis corresponded to Staphylococcus aureus, Coagulase-negative Staphylococci and Enterobacteria, with a quarter prevalence of 15.8, 9.3 and 3.7 % respectively, for intramamary infections of 35.5 %. In relation to average values of the SCC obtained in individual cows in the herds (27*103cell/mL), 6.5 % of cows with higher critical values (200*103cell/mL) were obtained. The distribution of the microorganisms by gender showed a higher incidence of Staphylococcus and Enterobacteria (26.9 and 3.7 %, respectively). The index of subclinical mastitis in the municipalities was close to what was considered correct, which was 0.5, managed as an epidemiological indicator of this disease.


Yoga is a traditional and cultural science of India. Ayurveda includes Yoga as an ideal lifestyle for maintenance of health (Swastha Vritta). Yoga is a part of ancient indian lifestyle and obesity is a lifestyle disorder spreading all over the world due to modern lifestyle therefore Yoga can successfully bring the weight loss. Yoga is a mind body practice correspondence to Pranayam (breathing exercise), Asanas (postures) and meditation which is very useful in the management of obesity with the benefits of weight loss. Yogasanas are psychophysiological in nature. Physiologically Yogasanas having static and dynamic effect on body. The mechanism of Yogasanas includes central nervous system which uses its lower centers of integration for the maintenance of posture and equilibrium. According to Ayurveda obesity known as Sthoulya. The term Medoroga is generally considered to mean obesity. Medoroga is a disorder of Meda Dhatu correlates with the over nourishment of Adipose tissue and disturbed fat metabolism which makes undesirable constitution. Yoga is helpful in the management of all aspects of obesity i.e. physical, emotional and mental conditions of person. Regular practice of Yoga, Suryanamaskara, Asanas (Yoga poses), Pranayama, cleansing process makes the difference and reduces the weight magically. Yogasanas or Yoga poses like Kapala Bhati Pranayama, Paschimottanasana, Veerabhadrasana, Dandasana, Poorvottanasana, Naukasana, Shalabhasana, Halasana, etc. brings permanent changes in weight loss by nature but one can needs to practice it regularly with the devotion.